Trader Youssef went from zero prop-firm payouts to $2 million by switching from ICT-style trading to order-flow trading. His edge relies on aggressive entries, averaging up into winners, and recognizing value formation, with position sizing small enough to survive aggressive plays.
4 criteria, 2 models that you've used to do over $200,000 in profits.
Look at this move. If I captured this, you risk 15 points, you're making 60 plus. I'm done. 30 minutes, I made more than what I was making at my job.
This guy was an ICT trader and got no payout. Then he was introduced to order flow, and now he has over $2 million in prop firm payouts. Introducing Trader Youssef.
This is what is a big part of my edge. I can see where value is forming and position myself according to that. This is a common misconception. A lot of traders average down. You should be averaging up, adding to a winning position when you that confirmation. That's how you catch the big moves and you press on your winners. That's where you make real money. This is an aggressive entry.
With aggressive entry, I'm always sized in much smaller because in this episode he explains exactly what took him from inconsistent to a consistently profitable trader. What he believes is the route to profitability through prop firms and the exact mistakes that the ICT traders are making.
I don't, I don't think many people do this and it's such a big edge. If you watch this every day, you see how value is forming, you can position yourself. So if you come in the day, you know, value forms here and now value's forming higher. It means price is accepting value higher. Buyers are much stronger. That's how I look at it. Essentially, my whole trading strategy is kind of—
not only this, he also trades the New York session live. Let's go!
What was that, like a 3-minute trade? We had zero, zero drawdown in that trade. Everyone understand what I try to do there? I try to get a squeeze play, aggressive entry. Why?
All this and so much more in this episode on Chart Fanatics.
